Procurement and buying FAQ
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Can a purchase requisition or order be superseded by a new one instead of cancelled and recreated?
How do we set an approval/authorization limit tied to a specific project role rather than a person?
Why can't we create a purchase requisition for a part that's restricted to contractor purchasing?
Can the "Supersede" action on a purchase requisition or order be restricted so only some users can use it?
A purchase order authorizer gets an access-denied error specifically when trying to reject an authorization step.
Can demand-planning forecast periods start from a date other than January 1st, like the first Monday of a year?
A standard Client_SYS.Add_Info warning (e.g. the Minimum Order Quantity alert when a Purchase Requisition line is below a supplier's MOQ) stops appearing in one environment, even though the code path and other Add_Info-style messages still fire normally. What could suppress just this one message?
Manual Supplier Invoices can be created via External File Assistant, but the imported invoices only get header and line data — is it possible to also load their posting information (accounting distribution) through the same import, rather than entering it manually afterward?
A mandatory field (e.g. Discount % on Supplier for Purchase Part) always defaults to 0 the moment a new record is started, which defeats the point of it being mandatory since it's never actually empty for the user to notice. Can the default value itself be suppressed so users are forced to enter a real value?
Setting up a custom event on the Register Arrivals screen — the specific line the user is processing visually disappears from the screen once they click OK to receive it, but it's not obvious which underlying table/LU to build the custom event against for that action.
Trying to set up Approval Routing on Supplier creation by adding 'ApprovalRouting' to the Service List of the LU SupplierInfoGeneral doesn't work — after refreshing the cache and re-logging in, no approval object shows up on the Supplier record at all.
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